VL-IV 1: L'amour est un oiseau rebelle [plain text]

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I suppose there's always the possibility that Hector is based on a real-life person.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Henry <scuffling at gmail.com>
>Sent: Dec 8, 2008 9:23 AM
>To: 'Pynchon Liste' <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: RE: VL-IV 1: L'amour est un oiseau rebelle [plain text]
>
>Hector's being Hispanic is also, dare I say, post-modern.  It turns the
>modern/PC good-Hispanic on his head.  And I do like Robin's associating him
>with a flipped Heston as Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas in "Touch of Evil."
>
>As a practical matter, with so many Hispanics in California, I could see the
>state  using (gee, if I was using HTML, I'd underline the word "using") some
>of the population for the state's nefarious purposes.
>
>A lot of pot comes across the border from Mexico.  Does anyone know if
>Hispanics have been as active as hippies and some plain old thugs in growing
>the stuff in California?
>
>Henry Mu
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